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Type of site | News site |
|---|---|
| Available in | Spanish |
| Owner | Angel Alayón |
| URL | www |
| Registration | None |
| Users | +1.0 million [1] |
| Launched | 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
Prodavinci is a Venezuelan news site that provides analysis from historians, scholars and scientists. [2] Foreign Policy called Prodavinci "a one-stop shop for Spanish-language analysis of the Venezuelan reality" [1] while The Wall Street Journal described the website as having "serious political analysis". [3]
In 2009, Angel Alayón, a Venezuelan economist out of the University of Chicago, created a personal blog and decided it needed more content, stating "I would read things in the New Yorker, or the Atlantic, or Slate, and I would wonder why Venezuela couldn’t have something like that". [1] Soon after, friends and the intellectual elite in Caracas began to show desire on posting on his blog, with Alayón then naming his blog "Prodavinci" as a "reference to DaVinci" and as "a call for a 'renaissance' of ideas in the country". [1] Alayón describes Prodavinci as "a space for ideas, discussions and debates" [4] though he doesn't want the website to be "a regular opinion page", saying:
"I always tell my writers that ‘opinion sucks,’ and what I mean is that in Venezuela, what passes as ‘opinion’ is not solid because it is not well-grounded. People can have an opinion, but they need to argue their points, not just state them". [1]
Venezuelan journalist and author Boris Muñoz was one of the first to join Prodavinci while Willy McKey is the assistant editor. [1] Contributors have included fiction writer and essayist Federico Vegas as well as constitutional lawyer José Ignacio Hernández. [1]
According to media protection organizations, Venezuelans "have been forced to find alternatives as newspapers and broadcasters struggle with state efforts to control coverage", with a growing trend of Venezuelans using online news media to bypass government censors. [3] When Prodavinci was launched in 2009, only dozens of visitors viewed the website. [3] By 2014, Prodavinci saw greater than double the monthly viewers with 239,000 visitors in September 2014. [3] In June 2015, the website was then receiving "several million hits per month". [1]
On 2 March 2022 Prodavinci received the King of Spain International Journalism Award in the category of International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action for their investigation "La promesa rota: el colapso de la seguridad social" (Spanish : The broken promise: the collapse of the social security system). [5]
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